Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

bunky! <3
can't leave the party if you can't find the door

Uncle Bunky's nephew (who wrote the obit) has been posting more stories

one time he tried to pick me up from elementary school in his shitty 70's era Buick LeSabre (a.k.a. The Sled) by revving the engine and hollering expletives out the window

the kids were so terrified, they asked a teacher to make sure I wasn't getting kidnapped

— Chris Santa Maria (@chrisantamaria) May 20, 2020

Mory Kante

Jerry Sloan Hall of Fame basketball coach

aw Mory Kante rip :(

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/22/mory-kante-guinean-musician-dies-aged-70-from-chronic-health-problems

“He suffered from chronic illnesses and often traveled to France for treatment, but that was no longer possible with the coronavirus,” said Balla. “We saw his condition deteriorate rapidly, but I was still surprised because he’d been through much worse times before.”

Not sure if this officially counts as a corona-related death, but in practical terms it does. RIP, what a voice.

Ok have to paste one more from the Uncle Bunky thread

he took me to my first NASCAR race where we snuck into the Dewalt promo tent and got kicked out because we started shotgunning Busch beers and snagging all the schwag

he screamed “I’M SORRY I THOUGHT THIS WAS AMERICA!” as we bailed out lol pic.twitter.com/2EX98rVRsN

— Chris Santa Maria (@chrisantamaria) May 20, 2020

Jerry Sloan was so funny in the Last Dance clip where he feigned confusion during the 54-point-game press conference: "Is that the score? Really?"

that was gold. RIP Jerry

RIP Jamaican producer Bobby Digital, originator of the Dem Bow riddim among many other accomplishments:
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/iconic_dancehall_producer_robert_bobby_digital_dixon_dies_at_59

Hana Kimura, professional wrestler and member of cult reality TV show Terrace House.

If facebook is to be believed, Peter Weller took his own life. Apologies if this doesn’t come out soon and I’m an asshole.

man i fucking hope not

literally nothing on twitter about peter weller

it's sort of a second hand eyewitness account. I'll eat my hat and apologize if it turns out not to be true. It's been waaaaay to long since I've seen Naked Lunch.

I don't know if this has been noted on another thread or not, but I just learned on Facebook that ILX poster Allen Baekeland died this morning. I never met Allen, but we communicated occasionally on here and on Facebook--we had some common background going back to college radio. Allen was also in a lot of bands, the most well known of which I think was Lost and Profound. I couldn't find his ILX handle--it was a lot of Russian letters or something like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzspdqTKt4A

Fuck, thats awful. RIP Allen

Was he Ρεμπετολογια? The Cowsills vs The Partridge Family

Assuming that was him. He posted under his own name at one point. RIP Billy Cowsill

Thanks, that was it. I searched for 15 minutes last night on various Toronto threads and couldn't find it. I found his real name on a 2005 post.

I followed some his playlists linked here: My Spotify playlists, let me show you them
I guess his screenname has something to do with Rembetika.

It is the title of book about Rembetika.

Wonder if he had another screenname in between? Anyway, RIP Allen.

Looking through his recent posts, he only posted intermittently the past year. He was in the Hendrix-poll thread a couple of times. I liked this post (which tells me he was probably about five years older than I am).

They played live. You were there. They released it for sale!

Last post in his own name was in June 2008, first as Ρεμπετολογια was in October, 2016. Hmm. Anyway I always liked his posts, have yet to listen to one of his gigantic playlists to the very end - yet!

Friend says screenname means something like "Rembetology."

He didn't seem to be the type to post up a storm. In this 500 post thread there is exactly one from him: Wishin' and Votin' - the BURT BACHARACH SONGBOOK Poll Results

Albert Memmi, French-Tunisian-Jewish writer and essayist, best known for his writings on colonialism. He was 99. RIP.

Here is a song about our late ILX0r friend: https://cjsw.bandcamp.com/track/the-bownesians-allen-saved-the-radio-station

and relevant Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJSW-FM

When I had a show on CIUT in the late-'80s, I think Allen had gone back to Calgary by then; his future wife, Jen Norfolk, was still there doing a show.

yes this is lovely

Throughout the late 70s the station held a varied format with punk played alongside jazz, blues, and reggae. But after years of conflict with the Students' Union over programming policy and budget, the SU secretly voted to shut CJSW down without notice to the station's management and membership or the University community. Tipped off to the SU's treachery, station manager Allen Baekeland slept in the studio, unbeknownst to campus officials and the locksmiths sent to perform the midnight shuttering. On the morning of 15 April 1980 he got up and switched on the station as usual, making a point of turning the roof speakers atop MacEwan Hall up full while playing the Pete Seeger song "We Shall Overcome". (In 2009 this incident was immortalized on CD by Calgary band The Bownesians in their song "How Allen Saved the Radio Station"). After two days of peaceful protest with community and media support, and meetings with station executives Bill Reynolds & Grant Burns the new SU executive reconsidered and reversed the closure decision.

A wee bit more detail on that story here: http://www.archive.thegauntlet.ca/sites/default/files/eg/eg2/20081023/20081023.pdf

Pretty sure I found another screenname for him, ρεμπετις.

If it isn’t him it’s an incredible simulation.

Positively the same dude!

college basketball coach eddie sutton, 84

Just discovered that definitive facesitting artist Namio Harukawa died a month ago and that Madonna liked him

Percussionist - composer Jimmy Cobb, best known for his work with Miles Davis.

So that’s it Kind of Blue-wise. RIP.

RIP Jimmy :(

:(

RIP

East German actress Renate Krößner, best known for her role in Konrad Wolf's 1979 film Solo Sunny, has died at the age of 75.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piyd6gxw63s

Footballer Christian Mbulu, only 23

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/26/morecambe-and-former-motherwell-defender-christian-mbulu-dies-aged-23

Shocking.

Pedal steel guitarist Bucky Baxter, who played on Bob Dylan's Never-Ending Tour.

and Green

He got his start with Steve Earle, iirc. I want to say Dylan stole him after Earle opened up for him.

larry kramer, 84

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/larry-kramer-dead.html

ah

Change in Abstract pic.twitter.com/jRNS6O15z1

— Editing TheGrayLady (@nyt_diff) May 27, 2020